Mingei International Museum

If you haven't seen "Surf Craft" at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, go now. The compelling exhibition about American makers and shapers of all kinds of wave-riding boards ends Sunday. Surf historian Richard Kenvin has assembled an amazing collection of boards from the early 20th century to the present. Even if you don't know anything about surfboards, these marvels of wood, fiberglass and foam stand on their own as works of art. "Other surfing [exhibitions] are more based on nostalgia," says Kenvin, who surfs and has been researching surfboards for a dozen years. "This is more the craft story." Indeed rarely have the 60 to 80 pieces...

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